World / Crime & Legal Aug 23, 2019
Prison staff subpoenaed in Jeffrey Epstein suicide probe, source says
Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed up to 20 staff members at the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, amid mounting evidence that guards failed to keep watch on the financier as he awaited trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls, a person familiar with ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 22, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein may have gamed system from beyond grave with $577 million locked in trust fund
The will that Jeffrey Epstein signed just two days before his jailhouse suicide puts more than $577 million in assets into a trust fund that could make it more difficult for his dozens of accusers to collect damages. Estate lawyers and other experts say prying ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 21, 2019
French model-scouting tycoon at heart of Jeffrey Epstein scandal accusations
A formerly powerful French modeling tycoon has emerged as a key figure in the scandal surrounding U.S. multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide in jail while facing charges of sexually trafficking minors. Jean-Luc Brunel, regarded as a close friend and ally of the disgraced U.S. ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 20, 2019
Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein signed a will two days before suicide
Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a long battle over the financier's fortune. Court papers filed last week in the U.S. Virgin Islands list ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 20, 2019
U.S. top cop William Barr sacks prisons chief after sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's suicide
Attorney General William Barr has removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life while in federal custody. Hugh Hurwitz's reassignment Monday comes amid mounting evidence that guards at ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 19, 2019
She's been called Jeffrey Epstein's madam, the woman who recruited girls for his sexual appetites, and at times his social planner and household organizer in places ranging from New York to Palm Beach, Florida. Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of a British publishing magnate who died ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 17, 2019
Medical examiner rules Jeffrey Epstein death a suicide by hanging
New York City's medical examiner ruled Jeffrey Epstein's death a suicide Friday, confirming after nearly a week of speculation that the financier faced with sex trafficking charges hanged himself in his jail cell. Epstein, 66, was found dead at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 16, 2019
'Very unusual suicide': Jeffrey Epstein autopsy reportedly shows neck broken in several places
An autopsy of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, found his neck had been broken in several places, the Washington Post reported late on Wednesday. Such injuries can occur to people who hang themselves ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 15, 2019
Over 400 sex abuse suits filed as one-year window opens for litigation in New York state
The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals, the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are some of the targets named in a flurry of sex abuse lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York as the state began accepting cases once blocked by the statute ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 15, 2019
An alleged victim of pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein sued for damages Wednesday as reports claimed his guards were asleep before the disgraced tycoon died from an apparent suicide in prison. Two employees of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York failed to check on Epstein ...
World / Crime & Legal Aug 14, 2019
Dozens of child sex abuse victims sue Catholic Church, others in New York after change in law
Dozens of people in New York state who were victims of sexual abuse as children sued the Roman Catholic Church in New York on Wednesday, the first day a new law temporarily enabled them to file lawsuits over decades-old crimes. More than 70 people have ...